Google "Andy Lopez" and "John Coleman Ohio Wal-Mart" and draw your own conclusion.
Andy Lopez, 13, (June 2, 2000
[2] - October 22, 2013) was an eighth-grade student who attended Lewis Opportunity School in Santa Rosa. He was raised in the Moorland Avenue neighborhood in southwest Santa Rosa. He transferred to Lewis Opportunity School from Cook Middle School one week prior to his death.
[3] At the time of the shooting, Andy had smoked marijuana within the last 60 to 75 minutes and was "likely feeling the effects of that marijuana at the time of his encounter with the sheriff's deputies."
[4]
According to Santa Rosa Police Lieutenant Paul Henry, two Sonoma County sheriff's deputies were patrolling the Moorland Avenue neighborhood when they spotted Andy Lopez, who was carrying an
airsoft replica of an
AK-47 assault rifle
[8] which did not have the orange tip that is a legal requirement for all toy guns for import.[
citation needed] The sheriff's deputies reportedly approached the children from behind and called out to demand that Lopez drop the weapon, while he was walking on Moorland, just past the corner of West Robles Avenue. Deputy Michael Schemmel remained in the police car while deputy Erick Gelhaus was outside of the car and was directly interacting with Lopez. At 3:14 pm, Erick Gelhaus, fired 8 shots at Lopez from his department-issued
9 mm handgun.
[9] Seven bullets hit Andy within 6 seconds, two of them delivering fatal wounds with one round hitting him on his side while he was turning to face the police, according to an autopsy. The deputies then immediately handcuffed Lopez. When
Lopez was searched after the shooting he was also found to have a replica pistol in his waistband, which reportedly looked realistic and was missing its orange tip. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
[10] There are conflicting reasons given as to why Lopez was carrying the replica firearms, with some stating that he was returning them to a friend and others saying that he was supposedly going to use them to try and scare a friend as a joke. Lopez was found to be under the influence of marijuana after an autopsy
.
Sad situation, but looks like a case of mistaken weapon and considering the circumstances police face with school shootings it is not unreasonable to see how such a mistake could be made.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_Lopez#cite_note-11 If this boy had an orange tip on his replica weapons I could understand your connection to the other shooting, but he didn't and the picture below
is from the Columbine massacre one could certainly take into account a very possible threat.
Taking a look at the weapon one is left to wonder.
AK47
Airsoft AK47 Replica
Airsoft AK47 Replicaa without orange tip.